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Comment on Jimmy Santiago Baca: “So Mexicans are Taking Jobs from Americans” by keith trammell

keith trammell — Wed, 08 May 2013 17:06:45 +0000

Revolution can take place North and South of the border. Why is it always what Americans need to do and never what people should stay home and do for themselves? (at least ,get in line and enter legally)

Comment on One teacher’s thoughts on the idea of arming teachers by Nick Humez

Nick Humez — Sun, 05 May 2013 20:40:27 +0000

For some years I taught in a smallish state college in New Jersey. The local urban culture glorified weapons as part of a “gangsta” value system popular among inner-city minority youth in its resistance to the Establishment, sentiments I have since found to be not unlike those of many suburban-rural gung-ho Tea Partiers after I retired to Ohio’s Western Reserve. In either instance the soberer members of the community repeatedly point out that the more weapons there are out there, the more likely they will go off. I cannot say we have had much success there or here. What I do believe with all my heart is that if guns are in a school, no matter who brings them in, someone is sure to get hurt. What we have is a public health epidemic, and it is in essence a psychiatric one, with a strong component of mass paranoia. Such a persecutional worldview risks becoming self-fulfilling if the nation is driven by more and more of these outrageous massacres to find itself with no choice but to treat gun proliferation as a homeland-security issue and DHS sets about confiscating all automatic weapons from private citizens not actually members of a public well-regulated militia (e.g., the armed forces or the police). But it may be hoped that even voters in pro-gun enclaves find enough additional reasons to vote for legislators who will stand up to the NRA and its “culture war.” If indeed there is such a war on, at bottom it is a war of sane and civilized culture against paranoid barbarity, and civilization will win, “else all our faith were vain.”

Comment on Jimmy Santiago Baca: “So Mexicans are Taking Jobs from Americans” by Carlos Echeverria

Carlos Echeverria — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 20:47:49 +0000

I found the part “The rifles I hear sound in the night
are white farmers shooting blacks and browns” to be a little to close for comfort when it came to racism. I’d like to know what you were feeling/thinking when writing that.

Comment on Jimmy Santiago Baca: “So Mexicans are Taking Jobs from Americans” by http://tinyurl.com/victsmart25515

http://tinyurl.com/victsmart25515 — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 06:06:35 +0000

“Jimmy Santiago Baca: �So Mexicans are Taking Jobs from Americans� � I am the Lizard Queen!
” was a splendid posting, cannot wait to read through even more of your posts.
Time to squander several time on the internet haha. Thanks a lot
,Dewitt

Comment on On being a woman who cries by One teacher’s thoughts on the idea of arming teachers « I am the Lizard Queen!

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 20:41:10 +0000

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Comment on Emanuel Litvinoff — “To T.S. Eliot” by Writing Paradise

Writing Paradise — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 19:05:03 +0000

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Comment on Jimmy Santiago Baca: “So Mexicans are Taking Jobs from Americans” by grisel murillo

grisel murillo — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 14:46:13 +0000

get the facts straight you idiot…first do you know how much it cost to raise a baby..more than assisstance from the government..i am mexican and work at burger king…but hey moron do you know how many white people work with me…more than mexicans..oh and obama…..dont get me started with politics because i will bring your side down..get a lfe and stop hating because you feel you need to bring a minority group down.

Comment on Examining the challenges to Bridge to Terabithia by Deja Vu Review (4) – Childhood Favorites and Banned Books « Dee's Book Blog

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 20:03:28 +0000

[...] 2. Bridge to Terabithia – Katherine Paterson Katherine Paterson’s classic about two friends and the world that they create for themselves – I had a place that I used to go and hang out with, luckily none of my friends ever died like in the book. But there was something so innocent about Jess and Leslie’s relationship. I didn’t realize that this was on the banned/challenges list until last year when I was doing some reading on Banned Books week – cited reasons include the promotion of the use of vulgar language (because damn and hell is said); the showing disrespect to adults and then the ultimate death of a main character. Here is a link to a really good blog detailing some of the challenges to the book – Bridge to Terabithia [...]

Comment on Jimmy Santiago Baca: “So Mexicans are Taking Jobs from Americans” by P Corona

P Corona — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 02:52:29 +0000

Dear Alicia,
Maybe the reason why the Mexicans are being hired over you is because you are ignorant and uneducated. I wish you were in front of me so that I could throw an english dictionary at your face!
Love, an educated Hispanic

Comment on Emanuel Litvinoff — “To T.S. Eliot” by T.S. Eliot Vs. the Jews | Jewniverse

T.S. Eliot Vs. the Jews | Jewniverse — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 19:39:18 +0000

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